The
Netherlands spent seven years and $202 million to digitize huge swaths
of AV archives that most people will never see. Was it worth it?
Driving through the Dutch countryside near the town of
Hilversum, I have an overwhelming feeling that the surrounding water
will wash out the road, given that my car is almost level with it. So
it’s surprising that the Netherlands’ main audiovisual archives at the Sound and Vision Institute reside in a multilevel underground structure here, ostensibly below sea level.
Sound and Vision, together with two other national institutions,
finished digitizing the bulk of the Netherlands’ audiovisual archives
last year, for a cost of $202 million over seven years. The project ran
smoothly and transparently, digitizing 138,932 hours of film and video,
310,566 hours of audio, and 2,418,872 photos.
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